UEFA Women's Euro 2025

UEFA Women's Euro 2025
The 2025 UEFA Women's Championship will be the 14th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe. The tournament will be played in Switzerland from July 2025. It will be the third edition since it was expanded to 16 teams. It will be the first time that the senior women's European football tournament will be held in a landlocked country. The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Host selection
Applications were submitted in August 2022, while final submissions were made in October. Switzerland were selected as hosts of the tournament on 4 April 2023 at the UEFA Executive Committee in Lisbon, Portugal. To be appointed as hosts, an absolute majority of votes was needed in the first round. If the first vote did not produce an absolute majority, the two bids with the most votes would advance to a second and final round. As the first round produced a three-way tie for first, a ballot was used to determine which two bidders would proceed to the second round.
Confirmed bids
Four declarations of interest to host the tournament were received by UEFA before the deadline of 12 October 2022.
Poland – On 3 June 2021, Zbigniew Boniek, head of the Polish Football Association, announced that the association had filed its bid at UEFA to host the 2025 Women's Championship, citing women's football as gaining in popularity in many European countries, including Poland.
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden – On 15 October 2021, the Danish Football Association announced that the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, with support from Iceland and Faroe Islands, have confirmed their bids to host the UEFA Euro 2025. On 6 April they submitted their application with multiple stadiums in each host country. The government of Sweden declared its support on the 12th. Finland also submitted an application to be part of the 2025 women's football European Championship on 12 October 2022.
France – On 3 February 2022, the French Football Federation and its president, Noël Le Graët, confirmed that France has been bidding for the organisation of the competition.
Switzerland – On 14 September 2022, the Swiss Football Association officially confirmed the bid and announced Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lucerne, Lausanne, Zürich, Thun, St. Gallen and Sion as their candidate-cities to host the events. On 4 April 2023, Switzerland was officially confirmed as host nation for the 2025 UEFA Women's Championships.
Cancelled bids
Denmark worked from 2018 on making a bid alone, but eventually shifted the focus to a joint bid with the Nordic countries and abandoned their solo effort due to increased demands from UEFA after the increased popularity of women's football.
Ukraine – In November 2021 the Ukrainian Association of Football declared their bid. However, the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and its subsequent events scrapped the plan.
Qualification
Qualified teams
The following teams will qualify or qualified for the final tournament alongside host Switzerland. Due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia's participation remains to be seen as the country is currently banned from competing.
Venues
The following are the 8 host cities and stadiums selected for Switzerland's bid:
Basel – St. Jakob-Park, capacity 38,512
Bern – Stadion Wankdorf, capacity 31,783
Geneva – Stade de Genève, capacity 30,084
Zürich – Letzigrund, capacity 26,104
St. Gallen – kybunpark, capacity 19,694
Lucerne – Swissporarena, capacity 16,800
Sion – Stade Tourbillon, capacity 16,263
Thun – Stockhorn Arena, capacity 10,398
Sponsors
PlayStation is an official sponsor of UEFA Women's Euro 2025
Amazon becomes official UEFA Women’s Football partner and will sponsor UEFA Women's Euro 2025
Broadcasting
Europe
References
External links
Switzerland 2025 bid info at Swiss Football Association
2025
Women's Euro
Women's Euro
Scheduled association football competitions
International women's association football competitions hosted by Switzerland
2020s in Swiss women's sport